MD, Payments Platform Engineering - AI-Driven Resilience

BNY Mellon; New York (NY); On-site; USD 250,000 - 330,000; Full time

Job summary

BNY Mellon in New York seeks a Managing Director, Engineering Group Leader for our Payments Platform Engineering to define and execute the engineering strategy for a mission-critical payments ecosystem, spanning wires, ACH, Zelle, real-time payments, checks, and related services.

You will lead a global, high‑performing engineering organization, drive modernization, resiliency, low latency, and observable platforms, partner with product, risk, compliance, cybersecurity, and audit, and champion

Qualifications

• 15+ years of technology leadership experience in financial services, payments, fintech, or regulated environments.
• Deep expertise in payments technology, transaction processing, distributed systems, and modernizing platforms.
• Proven ability to evaluate architecture, guide decisions, and coach senior leaders toward scalable, secure, and resilient design.
• Experience delivering measurable improvements in resiliency, performance, and delivery outcomes through modernization.
• Experience collaborating with audit, risk, compliance, cybersecurity, sanctions, and regulators on technology controls.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the engineering strategy for the payments platform, overseeing architecture, modernization, delivery, resiliency, and production stability.
• Lead the transformation of core payment capabilities into a scalable, secure, highly available platform.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership across distributed systems, APIs, event-driven architectures, and data platforms.
• Partner with product, operations, risk, compliance, cybersecurity, and business leaders to deliver secure, resilient end-to-end payment solutions.
• Drive adoption of AI-enabled engineering practices and intelligent automation to improve delivery, quality, and efficiency.
• Lead and develop large global engineering organizations with a culture of accountability and engineering excellence.
• Engage executives, governance bodies, auditors, and regulators to align modernization priorities and platform performance.
• Establish and track measurable outcomes across availability, resiliency, throughput, latency, modernization progress, and incident reduction.

Skills

Technology leadership

Payments technology

Distributed systems

APIs & event-driven

AI in engineering

Executive communication

Global team leadership

Regulatory collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/IT

Tools

Cloud platforms

Job description

BNY Mellon in New York seeks a Managing Director, Engineering Group Leader for our Payments Platform Engineering to define and execute the engineering strategy for a mission-critical payments ecosystem, spanning wires, ACH, Zelle, real-time payments, checks, and related services.

You will lead a global, high‑performing engineering organization, drive modernization, resiliency, low latency, and observable platforms, partner with product, risk, compliance, cybersecurity, and audit, and champion